Advanced Language Translation Announces Partnership With E-Merge Strategies, Inc.
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 24 /PRNewswire Interactive News Release/ -- Advanced Language Translation has recently announced an agreement to partner with E-Merge Strategies, Inc., a Buffalo, NY, company with offices in Boulder, Colorado and Tokyo, Japan, making Advanced Language Translation one of the first users of E-Merge's new web-based language...

Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography.
Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography. Chester Brown. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2003. 272 pages. $24.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Once you begin reading Chester Brown's graphic biography, Louis Riel, with its controversial content, you cannot help but ask yourself about the attitude of the author, born in Montreal...

National projects on languages education: an update.
COMPLETED PROJECTS Improvement in the National Coordination and Quality Assurance of Ethnic Schools This project has been finalised. The aim of the project was to strengthen national coordination and quality assurance in after-hours ethnic/community language schools in Australia, with a focus on three key areas:...

Gesture: in modern language teaching and learning.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ABSTRACT For decades there have been linguists who proclaimed the significant role of kinesic expression in carrying the meaning of spoken language (e.g. Efron, 1941; Birdwhistell, 1952; Kendon, 1972). Drawing on such studies, there have also been pioneer studies of gesture in second...

The Man who loved languages: a scholar with the ability and audacity to rebuild the Tower of Babel died a year ago, but his controversial project lives on.
"Next time, the origins of pitch accent in Old Japanese," Sergei Starostin called out to his graduate students as they left his afternoon seminar in historical linguistics at the Russian State University for the Humanities. No one in the room that day, September 30, 2005, had any inkling that...

Popular music and identity in Quebec.
Introduction In his book Banal Nationalism, Michael Billig demonstrates that nationalism is by no means a "peripheral phenomenon, present in ethnic separatist movements but removed from common nation states." (1) Instead, citizens are perpetually reminded of their national identities by symbols such as flags, coins, national anthems,...

German scholarships for students.
Byline: Surbhi Bhatia The German Academic Exchange Service has announced scholarships for working professionals to pursue postgraduate subjects at universities in Germany. The scholarships are available in 42 different courses in the areas of economic sciences, business administration, political economics, development co-operation, engineering and related sciences, mathematics,...

After hectic hours, execs find fun at hobby classes.
Byline: Debojyoti Ghosh & Swati Anand David Haynes (23), a quality manager with DigiCaptions, finishes work at 4 pm and makes sure he's on time for his piano class twice a week. "It's something I enjoy doing. Music is my passion from school days and this is...

Pakistan: Salaar Khan.
Salaar Khan, a ten year old boy from Pakistan, represented his country at the 2003 Festival He has grown up speaking many languages. His mother communicates with him in Pashto, the language of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, The second language he speaks is Urdu, the national language...

National Initiative Announced to Help Hospitals Better Communicate With Patients Who Speak Limited English.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Selects 10 Hospitals Nationwide to Identify and Test Strategies to Provide Effective, Timely Language Services to Patients PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A national program to improve the quality of health care provided to patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) was announced...